Arnold Naville, Bibliographie des écrits de André Gide (1949, reprinted 1971), lists Gide’s published writings. Catharine Savage Brosman, An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism on André Gide, 1973–1988 (1990), compiles both texts by Gide and criticisms of Gide’s work written in English and other major European languages that have appeared since 1973.

Biographies in French include Claude Jacques Mahias, La Vie d’André Gide (1955), a pictorial work; Jean Lambert, Gide familier (1958), a study of Gide in his old age by his son-in-law; and Pierre de Boisdeffre, Vie d’André Gide, 1869–1951, 2 vol. (1970–71), a full-scale account. Jean Delay, La Jeunesse d’André Gide, 2 vol. (1956–67), also available in an abridged translation by June Guicharnaud, The Youth of André Gide (1963), presents a sound, important psychoanalytical study. George D. Painter, André Gide: A Critical Biography (1968), provides a good introduction to Gide’s life and work. Jean Schlumberger, Madeleine and André Gide, trans. by Richard H. Akeroyd (1980; originally published in French, 1956), covers Gide’s marriage. Thomas Cordle, André Gide, updated ed. (1993), illuminates Gide’s personal life.

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